Casey goes rogue to build the King Zero V12 supercar! 

This is gonna be nuts! Hope you're excited!

Casey, you forgot the third option: you could be a total jackwagon who ALSO actually knows how to build cars! :-D No matter how it turns out, thanks for bringing this iconic design back. Hats off to ya, and can't wait to see how the project progresses.

The extended music is awesome and this project is pure insanity. YEESSSSSS

When you were talking about visibility, the first thing i thought about was how easy that is to fix in this day. A wide view digital rear view mirror camera set up would totally work wonders if placed right.

Honestly, this is the most excited ive been for a CP video since the driver rant video. This, this right here is why I subbed to this channel.

“Your crazy, your insane... no one could pull this off”.... “ahh, sir he built a life size, turbine bat mobile and a Liken Super car”..... “except you my boy, you, your going to go far!!!”

Shout out to Avalon King! This is the way of the future (present?) for marketing. Companies that are adopting this format early will rise to the top

Rod Tempero in New Zealand to this day builds cars from 100% scaled sketches he draws on his wall. Good luck, should be a blast.

This is going to be the greatest build ever done on youtube

So this was the reason for the Porsche and v12 bmw

Oh my god... I'll do that for my project... that's a really good idea 😆 I thought of drawing my motorcycle at a 1:1 scale but never thought of using a projector to make a exact template. Genius!

nice to see someone finally appreciating Gandinis best work , not too many people even know about this car , its gonna be a sight to see for sure . best of luck from Buenos Aires , Argentina.

man I love this channel, so many interesting car builds going on, one of the best car centered channels I have watched in a long time.

The Lancia Stratos Zero, Dodge M4S PPG,Vauxhall SRV, Maserati Boomerang, Buick Wildcat, Vector W2, Oldsmobile areotech, Dome zero, Alfa Romeo Carabo has always been my favorite car designs, posters of these cars are what littered my walls in my room. I can't wait to see how your vision turns out.

This is my new favorite build on RU-vid. I am unbelievably excited for this.

My grandfather was a mechanical engineer for Cooper-Bessemer Energy Services. He worked on their gas compressor engines, and he used to keep blue prints in the buffet in his dining room. I used to love unrolling them and reading them.

Casey, I remembered the shape of the Zero was used in a Michael Jackson Movie called Moonwalker. I searched it and found it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KLBh0kS-2JU.html Please make sure, the zero is not licensed in any way by Warner Bros. There is also a reference to the car in the Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonwalker

love this. cant wait to see it start coming together. Being a woodworker by trade and a wrench head by gasoline addiction I keep looking at Model A frames and sheet metal and thinking about the Duesenberg concept IE keeping a chassis and front sheet metal and going wooden buck coach built body. Power plant would be a 2.3L turbo ford with a 5 speed based off the SVO mustang motor.

Watch Casey passionately insult 90% of the car community, more of this please! Hearing your love for cars when you talk is amazing

The Stratos Zero is certainly one of my favourite car designs of all time... Super excited to see how your take on it turns out!

Yay! Lancia Stratos Zero concept, by Bertone. Cool!

As the brits would say: Absolute Madlad! I love this idea, hope everything goes smoothly

For the people who dont understand why he doesn't have more he is actually moving extremely fast builds like this usually take years even decades.

The beauty of RU-vid is that there are videos of the amazing original concept driving around, the best being at the Villa d'Este 2018 concours event. It's a crazy car that's going to be a spectacular build.

Casey Punch should build a super car that is powered by Whoppers. Then it can be the Burger King Zero.

Finally someone makes their own super car, I'm excited for this right here. 🙏🏾

This is possibly the coolest concept for a car build series on RU-vid! Legit building a Italian super car the old school way

You're going beyond merely hot-rodding, and that's why I am a subscriber. I hope this all turns out exactly as you intend. By the way, your Omega car is fabulous, too.

Love the mixing and mastering you did on the intro! I didn’t skip it this time :D feels like you decided to step up you production a notch, good to see you stepping out of a comfort level and I appreciate both the OG and your developing quality

If I was Avalon King I would be trilled you are doing this because they can put their name on something totally freaking awesome.

Looks like you're beginning an interesting journey! I built a LoCost from scratch a few years ago and it was a blast. I believe hypercars are as much about engineering competition as they are about art, design, luxury, and who can afford them. Like you say, no one will ever drive one close to it's potential, and to be honest, will ever really be able to. I like hypercars and supercars, but what the industry really needs are simpler cars, cars like the original Miata or '65 Mustang. Ones without touch screens, various superfluous sensors gadgets, nannys and features that may rarely be used over the life of the vehicle. Ones that are cheap to insure and cheap enough to own as a second car. But that's just me.

I've been fortunate to see the Zero in person, and it really is the coolest thing ever. Can't wait to see how yours will come out!

This is way better than I expected. You are crazy in the best possible way Casey, can't wait to see it coming to life!

I recognized the shape of that car immediately from the thumbnail! One of my favorite concept cars of all time. It's my dream to be able to one day drive the actual vehicle--but unlikely given it's owned by a private collector here in LA. listening to you monologue about the quirks of the supercar legacy is really entertaining, by the way. haha.

My kind of craziness. I love the concept and I look forward to watching the build come together.

Well this for sure will give the lads CV a hell of a talking point come job interview time. True to your ethic and attitude Casey, bring it ON !!

Casey... you're insane!! I LOVE IT!!!

Caseys enthusiasm is me in my head while endlessly just reading and scrolling through cars in gran turismo.

Alright, this completely blew past all my expectations. Sure I expected a cool build but not a classic design that’s never been build. I am a huge fan of the stratos and rightly looking forward to this build.

You're going to win the car YT build game. Congrats.

im excited to see this build. i like to see builds that are actually driven, not like other youtubers who only make garage queens. this is going to be great.

You're crazy awesome building your dreams. You serve as great inspiration. Thank you Casey, can't wait to see the progression of this build!

Hell yeah! Excited to watch this come to life! Thought you were going to do a Mercedes C111 with a proper engine, but a Stratos Zero inspired build with a V12 and proper engineering of the chassis+suspension is going to be much better and sooo glorious!!

Thanks Casey. Awesome design to start from. Marcello Gandini is a design god.

This is a great project! One of the coolest I've seen recently on YT. I look forward to seeing how it comes together.

I absolutely love this project! Now there will be intense waiting for next Thursday for quite some weeks to come, excellent! Casey, you are great and I wish you all the best of luck with this build!

This is going to be an insanely difficult project, but it's in the right hands. Looking forward to seeing it progress. Just remember to pay attention to weight distribution - that was one of the biggest problems with the Stratos and earned them a reputation for the back end overtaking the front.

You are an amazing individual Casey. Keep it up. You truly inspire and are a rare breed that means what they say and say what they mean. You are appreciated!

This design with modern suspension, drivetrain, and materials, will be a real beastie. Don't forget to add some ground effects to help keep this thing on the road! GOOD LUCK 👍!

Yes! I absolutely love this and I can’t wait to see it complete

So inspiring!! Both what you're doing and how you're doing it. Looking forward to all the videos!

Sooo looking forward to this project. I feel like the kid I once was, like Casey, drawing cars in the margins of my biology notes!

Love that he’s like “Here’s my opinion fuck you if you don’t like it I don’t care” lol. Keep up the amazing content👍🏻

FYI they still do full scale 1:1 tape drawings in professional design studios. You’re suppose to use thin black flexible tape to get your lines.

Casey, I dont know how to but I wish i could become a facsimile of you. Your publicly presented persona is everything I aspired to be growing up. i tried to do near this exact project but with my own designs in college as part of my thesis

Congrats Casey! This is a mega project! I'll be keeping tuned in to see the progress. One request though, please show more of the work. On the Lyken project it jumps to many of the build steps... Keep up the good work!

This is why I subscribed. You're inspiration to us all.

Please include the lower window. I think the i8 was supposed to have a lower window from the concept but they chickened out.

I honestly thought this was the Dome Zero, but both are complete wedges and I love any car that looks like a rediculous 80's wet dream

Yes! It’s a noble purpose and all I hoped for this build. As Marcello Gandini himself said “it was a sculpture on wheels, a rather pointless one” but now it will mean something more. I hope you get to see the beautiful interviews to Gandini and the other big designers and engineer of the time, you’ll find them on youtube with english subtitles on the channel Davide Cironi. Thanks for the great entertainment

U are inspiring me soo much man , thank you for bringing this to RU-vid ❤️❤️

After watching this video, I searched to find the actual concept car itself, and It's sweet!!! I know your build will be amazing, and I'm hooked. I can't wait to see what you do with the Replica Contash body you just bought for 5K. BTW, my car was a Candy Apple Red 67 Shelby GT350 4 speed. I bought it smashed up for 4,500 bucks back in the early 80's before I got married. I fixed all the crash damage myself with a Lincoln Mig welder my dad had.

This is great! The original Stratos concept is really radical! The Maserati Boomerang wouldve been nice as well. Like the sharp lines both Gandini and Giugiaro use. Real rivals actually having quite a comparable style.

I do love the Zero concept can’t wait to watch the build

He's me a few seconds in, going, "Ooh, Carabo-inspired something."

Thats a neat concept car I have to admit its impressive. I think it can be even better give it gets a bit of a more modern spin on it. More fluid lines and a bit more complex surfaces can do the job

There is another car that is considered the "sister" of the Lancia Zero, it is the Ferrari Modulo which shared a lot of the design cues of the other one, but if memory serves me right, it was actually based on the Ferrari 512S and/or 512M race car, as far as engine, chassis, and so on. Jim Glickenhaus owns it and his team recently completed a total restoration on it. He drove it in Monaco last year and it caught fire around the exhaust area and had to be repaired. The Lancia Zero didn't suffer from the same issue, but it could've been because it was never driven as much as Jim drives his cars. Maybe look into it, given your King Zero does share some design cues of its own with them. It would be hard to justify to Avalon King that you need more money because not only you didn't buy their products, but the money your spent on your project went up in flames with the car, quite literally.

This is a wonderful project. The Stratos Zero is one of the two greatest car concepts ever, along with the Ferrari Modulo. I can’t wait to see how this turns out! You have a new subscriber.

Wait a second, I thought youtubers are supposed to buy wrecked Mclarens and Lambos. I can't wait to see this

The amount of excitement I have is unmeasurable

Thursday just became my favorite day of the week

Ok, this is awesome to see at launch. You got it. Unless Avalon King finish you before you finish it /joking But it really is much better than the usual "look at me and my GT-R (replace model)". Btw will you use Avalon King logo as car logo? Would be really neat and fit nicely.

I love this! This makes me want to build and design my own car! Only I dont have too much imagination and money of course and know how on cars to do it! 😂😭

I'm so excited to follow this build,I enjoy all of the Genius Garage endeavors,buuuuut this is just totally rad and absolutely the coolest thing.

I loved when he said "I'm gonna do it Italian and do it fast"

Super awesome. I’ve sketched bits of this car several times. I love the rear wheel arch.

This is gonna be fun to watch unfold, certainly an amazing design that you couldn't make nowadays. I do like the Zero, but I favor the Alfa Romeo Carabo a bit more, don't know if you looked at any of those when you were researching the Zero. I may have a slight brand bias though...

One of my favorite Hot Wheels from when I was a kid in the 70s was a Lancia Stratos Zero, and I'm going to claim that I also had a bigger one from Dinky? (Hot Wheels was silver and Dinky was orange) Loved those!

How about a fellow RU-vidr challenge? Arete GT Supercar vs King Zero? Randomly selected 60 year old grandmother- drives both cars on the track and on a busy city street? Fastest track time 25 points. Most driver friendly 25 points. Most likely to be driven regularly 25 points. Most likely to be a production car 25 points.

keep going!!!! love this kind of content!

This makes me want to turn my junk 300zx body into a ute.

Great idea. Personally I would smooth the sides a bit to reduce the side troughs and thus reduce the drag. I have always loved the stratos since my father "borrowed" the one pirelli was using as a test car to pick me up from high school one day! the production stratos was one angry little go-cart with no manners or restraint. A bit like you Casey!

THIS IS SO EXCITING!!

This is probably the Grandfather of the wedge cars of the 1970’s. Build your dream Casey.

This is the coolest car project I've ever seen. Hats off if you coach build this ! One question, shouldn't be the board set up extremely precisely to get an accurate projection ? It does not seem vertical from the cameraman's angle. Just asking :)

Absolutely love this. What a fantastic idea. Love it.

Can't wait for this to come to fruition. Looks sweet.

This helps me figure out how to build to concept cars I want to build. Ford Mustang 1 and view of the best supercar.

Welp, time to doodle out a few car drawings. I don't have anywhere near the money or skills to make it a reality, but I have had a car idea in my head for a while, sorta a cross between a Lotus 7, a Plymouth Prowler, and a Formula E Gen 2, and this video has inspired me to think about it a bit more.

This video means a lot to me, because it talks about how cars were a way to express youself, how they were something to actually enjoy rarher than just looking at them. I have a big apreciation for the CCX because if im not wrong its the true last raw supercar, and its not as expensive as the other cars in its category, even if its still not exactly affordable. My realistic dream car is a caterham seven, small, relatively cheap, lightweight, and as fun as any motorbike, wich is my plan B, buyng a CBR600 RR. Thanks for making a video for people who understand that the good cars arent just expensive or fast, are thoose cars wich have a personality, and dont necesarily follow any standars, and they get made for those people who understand those cars. This is one of the reasons im angry towards the panamera, or the cayenne, or any other crappy utility car porsche made, those cars dont mean anything but i have money, id you have a porsche it probably means that you bought a car to be driven, to be heard, but overall, to truly enjoy.

That's uhhhh, breathtaking. Don't get me wrong it looks neat but some of the stuff for that car was better left in the design room. To me this design looks crazy for the sake of being crazy.

Think you could use more downforce in the front. Either bend the nose down or mount a spoiler. Bummer because it is such a beauty now.

huge respect for you casey

Man i love that car!! Ever since i saw Micheal Jackson transform into that car in Moonwalker i have loved it!

I feel like the arrogant jackwagon/carbuilder questions answer is somewhere in the middle, love the lykan build, amd everything youve shown on this channel, found you via vinwiki :D

Also a fan of the Maserati boomerang concept and vw-Porsche tapiro or something close to that name love the 70s wedge era a Lotus Esprit 007

I'm excited for some actual metal shaping videos. I've been studying the trade (reading, watching videos, ect) for years now. I'm finally getting close to starting my first project. I'm scaling up in size the 1933 dodge brothers truck that I have. I'm going to be starting with headlight buckets. I just need to get argon for my new tig welder, and get all the metal tools I've accumulated in one place. Good luck and please share anything you learn that might help us out!

Beautiful dude. Can't wait 👍😁

No car has ever cried out more to be re-engined than the Stratos Zero. I was at the Turin Motor Museum for the 30th Anniversary of the Stratos. After the event, I was chosen to sit in the Zero and steer as it was pushed through the museum and out to its trailer for the ride back to Bertone. Chance of a lifetime! Well one of the foremost Stratos rally car collectors went one better. He was allowed to fire it up and drive the Zero around the lot. As it spluttered into life, the whole aura around this work of automotive art, shattered. It sounded... Well, I've heard more tuneful tractors. The Lancia v4 is a great engine. Having driven a rally-prepared Fulvia HF Fanelone from Central Europe to the UK, I should know. Its biggest problem in the Zero is that stumpy trumpet exhaust. Even if that was rectified, a 4 cylinder is just too puny. But here's the rub. No matter how many pistons, I don't think any conventional internal combustion engine could do the Zero justice. That shape is so out of this world that it needs an equally futuristic sounding propulsion system. If Dilithium Crystals aren't on the Genius Garage curriculum, then perhaps a gas turbine or -dare I say it- an electric motor (and a hookup with Rich Rebuilds?!) Don't get me wrong, I'm a bonafide Petrolhead. But... "If the sh#t fits, wear it!"

Casey you’re a legend